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THE SOCIAL INTERNET
OF THINGS
The Social Internet of Things
Social Internet of Things (1/2)
Total number of humans in the world: around 7 billions
Expected number of objects: trillions
How to find the right object?
Among humans …
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Social networks! Why not the same for objects?
The Social Internet of Things
Social Internet of Things (2/2)
Advantages
Navigability*
Scalable
Trustworthiness
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Reason Humans Things
Become visible Increase popularity Publish information/services
Find resources Find old friends Find information/services
Obtain context information Get filtered information Get environment characteristics
Discover new resources Find new friends Find new services/updated
information
*J. Kleinberg, “The small-world phenomenon:
an algorithmic perspective”
in Proc. of ACM Symposium
on Theory and Computing, 2000
The Social Internet of Things
SIoT - Types of Relationships
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Parental object relationship
Co-location object
relationship and co-work
object relationship
Ownership object
relationship
Social object relationship
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SIoT - Relational Models (1/4)
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Communal sharing
Humans/Things
• Behaviors of objects with collective relevance
• Focus on the service offered by the entire swarm
* A. P. Fiske, “The four elementary forms of sociality: framework for a
unified theory of social relations,” Psychological review, vol. 99, 1992.
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Objects operate as equals and request/provide information
among them in the perspective of providing IoT services to
users while maintaining their individuality
Humans/Things
Equality matching
SIoT - Relational Models (2/4)
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Established between objects of different complexity and
hierarchical levels
•RFID reader and Tags, Bluetooth master and slave
Humans/Things
Authority ranking
SIoT - Relational Models (3/4)
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• Working together in the view of achieving mutual benefit
• Participation in this relationship only when it is worth
the while to do so
Humans/Things
Market pricing
SIoT - Relational Models (4/4)
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I discovered how to
connect to printer
192.167.131.60
Pavla’s
Mac
Long line through
second exit Via
Roma route Maria’s
car
I got a rare issue
… looking how
to fix it
Efisio’s car
Your operator
network
Free WiFi
Better
coverage
Angela
Mario is at “Il lido”
Luisa is at “Charlie” Disco
Giorgia is here
Michele
I got the highest
energy consumption
in the block
Mauro’s house
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Laura
In Rome the weather
is unexpectedly cold
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SIoT Components
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Profiling
Social graph
Social presence
Partici-pation model
Relation control
Service APIs ID Mngt
Profiling
Owner control
Rela-tionship
mngt
Service disco-very
Service compo-sition
Trust-worthi-
ness mngt
Service APIs
Social Network
for Humans*
Social Networks
for Things
*D. M. Boyd and N. B. Ellison, “Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship,” Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication, vol. 1, no. 13, 2007.
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SIoT Architecture
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Probability distributions of the minimum path length between a pair of
randomly selected objects in SIoT and random network cases
SOME PUBLICATIONS
The Social Internet of Things (SIoT)–When social networks meet the Internet of Things: Concept, architecture and network characterization, L Atzori, A Iera, G Morabito, M Nitti, Computer Networks, 2012
SIoT: Giving a social structure to the internet of things, L Atzori, A Iera, G Morabito, Communications Letters, IEEE 2011
Making things socialize in the Internet – Does it help our lives?, L Atzori, A Iera, G Morabito, ITU-T Kaleidoscope, 2011
The internet of things: A survey, L Atzori, A Iera, G Morabito Computer Networks, 2010
A Subjective Model for Trustworthiness Evaluation in the Social Internet of Things, M Nitti, L Atzori, R Giru, A Iera, G Morabito, IEEE PIMRC, IoT-CN workshop, 2012